Improvement in bag-locks



1. RILEY.

Locks.

` Bag- Patented lan. 6 1874.

rrEn STATES BERNARD J. RILEY, on NEWARK, NEW JEEsEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-LOCKS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,282, dated January 6, 1874 application filed December 16, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD J. RILEY, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Locks for Traveling-Bags, of which the following is a specification.:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the lock-case and top of bag-frame. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, taken at one side of the fastening standard. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line .r a', Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a view of the key-piece removed from the fastening standard, and Fig. 5 shows the hasp portion of the lock carried on one side of the frame.

The invention consists in the combination, with a spring-supported bolt-piece, of a standard having a guard, and operatin g in connection with a seat, so that the boltpiece may be locked or be allowed 4to move, and in connection with this standard I employ a removable key-piece.

0n the drawing, a a represent the top pieces or frames forming the top of a traveling-bag. b is a plate, and c a case to sustain and inclose the mechanism of the lock or fastening, and these parts are confined to the part a of the bag-frame by suitable rivets or bolts. Rising from and secured to plate b are two headed studs, d, surrounded by spiral springs e. These studs guide, and the springs hold up against the heads, a bolt-piece, f, consisting of a plateprovided with one or more short beveled studs, g. A seat, j, having a slot, is secure-d to plate b, which, as well as the top of the frame, is provided with an opening, to allow the passage of standard h, and the seat is placed with respect to such openings so that a portion, p, of plate b serves as a rest under one end of slot x in the seat, for a guard or projection, t', on the standard 7L, and to prevent the standard h from being depressed. This standard It, having guard z', and supported by the bolt-piecef, is provided, 'at its upper portion, with a depressing-spring, m, to hold the standard down against the bolt-piece f, and with a screw-thread to receive a screwthreaded projection from a lrey-piece, o. This key-piece is thus removable. It serves the purpose of a key, and its projecting portion may be of any desired shape, it only being necessary that a rapper-shaped opening be made to receive it in the top portion of the standard h. The part a ofthe frame has a plate, fr, provided with recessed lugs s, that pass through openings made in the side of the case c, in line withv the studs g. L

The bag being open, the jaws may be closed, when the lugs will pass through the openings in case c, will meet and depress the beveled studs g, and, when the recesses in the lugs come above the `ends of the studs, the latter will rise in such recesses under the action of the springs e, and thus conine the two parts a a together. i

To open the bag, the standard l1l should be turned to the positionshown in Figs. 1 and 3,

so that the guard 't' is free to pass down through the slot in the seat, and the coinciding openings in the plate b and frame, and .in this position the bolt-piece f may be depressed by depressing the standard h.

To lock the bag, and to etfectually prevent the disengaging or downwardnioveinent of the bolt-piecef, elevate the standard It so that its guard i isabove the notch .r in the seatj, then turn the standard h half-way around, so that the guard i enters the right-hand end of slot m in the seat, and in this position the portion p of vplate b supports standard h, so that it, and with it the' boltpiecef, cannot be depressed.

When the key-piece o is removed from the standard h, the latter cannot be raised and turned by the fingers, as it is entirely within the case c. j y

This fastening can be easily adapted to sewing-machine covers, pianos, boxes, 85e.

Instead of forming the seat as shown, to prevent the standard `from being depressed or turned, I may provide it with a projection to enter a recess of the standard h or guard i.

Having described myinvention, I clai1n- 1. The spring-supported bolt-piece, provided with one or more lugs, in combination with the standard provided with a guard de )ressinff-s )rin m and o eratino" in connection with the seat, substantiallyas described.

2. The combination, with the standard, having a guard depressing-spring, m, and supported on the bolt-piece, of the removable keypiece, substantially as and for the purpose described.

Witnesses: BERNARD J. RILEY.

AUGUSTINE T. RILEY, JOHN J. LYNELL. 

